INTERNAL CONFLICT-: SIKH
DISAGREEMENT - OPERATION BLUE STAR
“'It is
never easy to undertake security action involving a place of worship… but this
place, so sacred to the people of the Sikh faith, had been converted by
terrorists into a base of operations,' Mrs Gandhi wrote just days after the
operation that left more than 1,000 people dead.'We did know that arms were being collected
there. But only after last week’s action did we realise how vast and
sophisticated these weapons were… For months a reign of terror was unleashed
from the temple complex, holding all Punjab to ransom. We had no choice but to
send an army unit which exercised the utmost restraint, using a minimum of
force,' she wrote” -The Economic Times